On Aug 16, 2010, at 8:38 PM, Joseph Isadore Ziff wrote: > Dear Fellow Gnupg users, > > I recently grew more knowlegeable about of the different ciphers and > compression methods. I already generated my secret key but would like to > change the symmetric encryption protecting the secret key. I put the > following in my gpg.conf: > > s2k-cipher-algo AES256 > > and then I updated my password with gpg --edit-key, passwd. Is that enough to > update the cipher on my private key?
Yes. See also the --s2k-digest-algo option, but the default is what you want anyway. > Is there also a way to detect the encryption algorithm on a file? Any help > with these questions is appreciated. Try gpg --list-packets, or decrypting with "-v" set. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
